Sunday, November 6, 2016
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Veterans & Family Appreciation Day for 2016
ATTENTION VETERANS!!!
THE APPRECIATION COOKOUT AND FISH FRY HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED, DUE TO IMPENDING RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS
The Mayors' Veterans & Family Appreciation Day for 2016 will be Saturday the 13th of August at Garfield Park.
Monday, August 8, 2016
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Military Families to Trump: Apologize for Comments to Khans
Starting with his 4-5 years of draft dodging, to his remarks in the 70's that his dating live in New York was his own "personal Vietnam", to his attempt to expel Veteran street vendors in New York, to his inability to understand the nature of being a POW, to his rolling out self-serving (and tax exempt) charity donations as diversions while stiffing Veterans on those donations, to his apparent lack of understanding of what the GI Bill is, to his comparison of his business moves as sacrifices on par with the sacrifice of a Gold Star mother and family... he continues to demonstrate that his entire outlook and understanding of the military and soldiers is framed by, and limited to his playing Army while attending a Military Prep School.issue. GlennDL
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Veteran Benefits Websites:
Re-posted from postal-indy.blogspot.com 9-30-2012
Information submitted by Steve Vaughn, Executive Vice President IAL #130 
Below are web-sites that provide information on Veterans benefits and how to file and ask for them. Accordingly, there are many sites that explain how to obtain books, military/medical records, information and how to appeal a denied claim with the VA. Please pass this information on to every Veteran you know. Nearly 100% of this information is free and available for all veterans, the only catch is: you have to ask for it, because they won't tell you about a specific benefit unless you ask for it. You need to know what questions to ask so the right doors open for you and then be ready to have an advocate who is willing to work with and for you, stay in the process, and press for your rights and your best interests.
Appeals
Board of Veteran's Appeals
CARES Commission
CARES Draft National Plan
Center for Minority Veterans
Center for Veterans Enterprise
Center for Women Veterans
Clarification on the changes in VA healthcare for Gulf War Veterans
Classified Records - American Gulf War Veterans Assoc
Compensation for Disabilities Associated with the Gulf War Service
Compensation Rate Tables, 12-1-03
Department of Veterans Affairs Home Page
Directory of Veterans Service Organizations
Disability Examination Worksheets Index, Comp
Due Process
Duty to Assist
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations
Emergency, Non-emergency, and Fee Basis Care
Environmental Agents
Environmental Agents M10
Establishing Combat Veteran Eligibility
Evaluation Protocol for Gulf War and Iraqi Freedom Vets with Potential Exposure to Depleted Uranium (DU)
See also, Depleted Uranium Fact Sheet
Evaluation Protocol for Non-Gulf War Veterans with Potential Exposure to Depleted Uranium (DU)
Fee Basis, Priority for Outpatient Medical Services and Inpatient Hospital Care
Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents 2005
Current Benefits
Forms and Records Request
General Compensation Provisions
Geriatrics and Extended Care
Guideline for Chronic Pain and Fatigue MUS-CPG
Guide to Gulf War Veteran's Health
Gulf War Subject Index
Gulf War Veteran's Illnesses Q&As
Hearings
Homeless Veterans
HSR&D Home
Index to Disability Examination Worksheets C&P exams
Ionizing Radiation
Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom Veterans VBA
M 10 for spouses and children <
M10 Part III Change 1
M21-1 Table of Contents
Mental Disorders, Schedule of Ratings
Mental Health Program Guidelines
Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers
MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Centers of Excellence
My Health e Vet
NASDVA.COM
National Association of State Directors
National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Neurological Conditions and Convulsive Disorders, Schedule of Ratings
http://www.omi.cio.med.va.gov/
Online VA Form 10-10EZ
Parkinson's Disease and Related Neurodegenerative Disorders
Peacetime Disability Compensation
Pension for Non-Service-Connected Disability or Death
Persian Gulf Registry
This program is now referred to as Gulf War Registry Program (to include Operation Iraqi Freedom) as of March 7, 2005:
Persian Gulf Registry Referral Centers
Persian Gulf Veterans' Illnesses Research 1999, Annual Report To Congress
Persian Gulf Veterans' Illnesses Research 2002, Annual Report To Congress
Phase I PGR
Phase II PGR
Policy Manual Index
Power of Attorney
Project 112 (Including Project SHAD)
Prosthetics Eligibility
Public Health and Environmental Hazards Home Page
Public Health/SARS
Publications Manuals
Publications and Reports
Records Center and Vault Homepage
Records Center and Vault Site Map
Request and Consent to Release of Information from Claimant’s Records
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses April 11, 2002
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses
Research and Development
Survivor's and Dependents' Educational Assistance
Title 38 Index Parts 0-18
Title 38 Part 3 Adjudication Subpart A "Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation
Title 38 Pensions, Bonuses & Veterans Relief (Compensation for certain disabilities due to undiagnosed illnesses found here)
Title 38 Part 4—Schedule for Rating Disabilities Subpart B—Disability Ratings
Title 38§ 4.16 Total disability ratings for compensation based on unemployability of the individual.
U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
VA Best Practice Manual for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
VA Fact Sheet
VA Health Care Eligibility
VA Instituting Global Assessment of Function (GAF)
VA Life Insurance Handbook
Lending Limits and Jumbo Loans
VA MS Research
VA National Hepatitis C Program
VA Office of Research and Development
VA Trainee Pocket Card on Gulf War
VA WMD EMSHG
VA WRIISC-DC
VAOIG Hotline Telephone Number and Address
Vet Center Eligibility - Readjustment Counseling Service
Veterans Benefits Administration Main Web Page
Veterans Legal and Benefits Information
VHA Forms, Publications, Manuals
VHA Programs - Clinical Programs & Initiatives
VHA Public Health Strategic Health Care Group Home Page
VHI Guide to Gulf War Veterans Health
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational Rehabilitation Subsistence
VONAPP online
WARMS - 38 CFR Book C
Wartime Disability Compensation
Gary Kloepfer, Assistant Director Maintenance Division
American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO
Thursday, June 23, 2016
OPERATION: JOB READY VETERANS
(855) 456-2732 - Office
(317) 517-0385 - Mobile
Headquarters: 9130 Otis Avenue, Suite A
Indianapolis, IN 46216
“Connecting Veterans with Employers”
For more information visit:
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
DoD: No Timeline on Opening Online Exchange to Vets
A Defense Department plan that would open online shopping at the exchange systems to all honorably discharged veterans has no timeline for completion, officials said.
"The Army and Air Force Exchange Service proposal to extend exchange online shopping benefits to honorably discharged veterans is being worked and continues to make progress through the Defense Department, said Air Force Maj. Ben Sakrisson, a Defense Department spokesman. "However, we are unable to specify a date when the department will make a decision on the proposal. As these recommendations are pre-decisional, it would be inappropriate to say anything more."
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Obama marks Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery
“…Obama acknowledged the continuing threat to service members, singling out for praise three who have died in Iraq in recent months: Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler, Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin and Chief Special Warfare Operator Charles Keating IV…”
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Memorial Day: May 30, 2016
Crown Hill Confederate Plot
700 West 38th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46208
Ceremony: May 30 at 12:45 p.m.
Crown Hill National Cemetery
700 West 38th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46208
Ceremony: May 30 at 2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
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Friday, May 6, 2016
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Video: Army veteran wins lawsuit to get USPS career status back
MARIETTA, Ga. —A Marietta Army veteran says she was forced to go to court to get her job back when she returned from serving her country.Jessica Rice was a mail carrier with the United States Postal Service before she joined the military.Jessica Rice was in the Army for four and a half years, serving two tours in Afghanistan.Rice was in the Army for four and a half years, serving two tours in Afghanistan. When she came home to Georgia in 2012, she tried to get her job back, but was told there were no open positions available.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Vietnam Veterans Day
Surviving Vietnam War veterans have gone through a lot in their lifetimes. Fighting in thick jungles and dense heat, they had to deal with hidden enemies, diseases and other health hazards while being away from their families for long stretches. When they returned – many with post-traumatic stress disorder and other health issues – it was to a nation that didn’t welcome them with open arms. By Katie Lange DoD News, Defense Media Actiity
There is some debate, March 29 is generally viewed as a more appropriate date. On that day in 1973, the last combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam and the last prisoners of war held in North Vietnam arrived on American soil. It is also the date President Nixon chose for the first Vietnam Veterans Day in 1974.
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Top General Takes 'Umbrage' at GOP Candidate Claims Military is 'Gutted'
A top-ranking American general said he takes “umbrage with the notion that our military has been gutted,” a claim made by several Republican presidential candidates on the campaign trail.
While releasing details Tuesday about the Obama administration’s $582.7 billion defense budget request for 2017, Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked about claims.
“I won’t be argumentative but I will take umbrage with the notion that our military has been gutted,” said Selva.
“I stand here today a person that’s worn this uniform for 35 years," he added. “At no time in my career have I been more confident than this instant in saying we have the most p… read more
Thursday, February 11, 2016
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